You Can Now Test Watchful With Joomla 4

At the end of May, the Joomla world enjoyed JandBeyond. Normally, this is the big annual Joomla event that’s held in Europe. This year, it became a huge, online conference that ran for 24 hours. All the presentations were streamed on YouTube and you can now watch the all on the JandBeyond channel.
One presentation was particularly important: the Joomla team launched the beta version of Joomla 4!
Our team moved quickly and you can already add Joomla 4 sites to the Watchful dashboard.
The official announcement is on Joomla.org and you can watch the launch video below.
This presentation is by George Wilson from the Joomla 4 release lead. If you’re interested in Joomla’s future, this is definitely worth 30 minutes of your time. George is an awesome advocate for Joomla and gives you the big picture around this Joomla 4 release.
About the Joomla 4 Beta
Please remember that Joomla 4 is currently a beta release, and should only be used on test sites. Don’t launch your new project with Joomla 4 yet. However, you can download and test the beta today.

How to Install Watchful in Joomla 4
I’m going to show you how to connect your Joomla 4 test site to Watchful.
- To get started, download the beta version of the Joomla client:
- Inside your Joomla 4 site, go to
System
in the admin menu. - Click
Extensions
in the “Install” box.

- Click on the
Upload Package File
tab. - Upload the beta version of the Watchful client.

- You’ll now see the Watchful intro screen. Click the
Add Site to Watchful
button.

- You will be taken to your Watchful dashboard and you can start managing your Joomla 4 site!

What’s Next With Joomla 4 and Watchful?
From this point on, the Watchful team are committed to helping make Joomla 4 a great experience. We’ll be regularly updating Watchful to ensure we support Joomla 4 sites.
We don’t know for sure when Joomla 4 will be ready to use on live sites. But whenever that is, we do know that Watchful will be ready.
Open your free Watchful account
Watchful is a free website dashboard for digital agencies. Open your account today and learn how much time you’ll save managing your site backups, updates, and security with Watchful. No credit card is required and there is no long-term commitment.
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